New appointments this week in UK politics, civil service and public affairs

Written by:

Dods People

Posted On:

29th October 2017

Dods People draws together a list of last week's appointments in Westminster politics, all the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector.

Houses of Parliament:

House of Lords

Baroness Trumpington (Conservative, Life Peer) retired.

Baroness Anelay of St Johns resigned as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union. Lord Callanan appointed Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union.

Lord Prior of Brampton resigned from Government. Rt Hon Lord Henley was appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Lord Duncan of Springbank was appointed as a joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Scotland Office and the Northern Ireland Office (having previously been a joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Scotland Office and the Wales Office).

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth was appointed as a joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Wales Office (having previously been a joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Northern Ireland Office).

Baroness Sugg CBE was appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport (having previously been a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting)).

Baroness Stedman-Scott OBE was appointed as a Government Whip (Baroness in Waiting).